Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Round 2

Peter Head enjoyed the last one, so here is round 2. These individuals were all active in the 20th century. I apologise to the Political Correctness Review Committee of the ETC that there are no women. I am saving up the pictures that I have until I find 10 well enough known to put them in one batch.

#1 looks German, maybe either Eberhard or Erwin Nestle?#6 looks alot like Tov, but isn't. He's studying fascimile editions of codices, one of which has 4 columns per page. And they are opened to the latter pages, clearly in the NT portion. He also looks similar to Hurtado, but I don't think it's he either. Unfortunately the face is smallish in the picture.#7 is next to an eastern orthodox cleric I think, I'm guessing in Athens.

Milne and Skeat on Sinaiticus? (definitely not Sinaiticus on that table; photos look early 20th cent)Grenfell & Hunt? (great pair, but not known to work on one famous ms; probably right generation)Other pairs?Kenyon and Sanders (not really a pair: co-operated on P46 but didn't really work together).

#7: location: PJW: "Greek Orthodox cleric, but not in Greece". Old stone wall?

Not Greece. Technically could be Mount Athos, but even PJW may not be that pedantic. So Sinai? St Catherine's? Wall looks plausible. Cleric looks a match. Outside in good light just outside the library?

Tommy's picture of the bust of Harris in Tommy's post about his visit to Birmingham confirms #3 as Harris. Re #1: my memory must be slipping faster than even some of you think--I met Karavidopolous at Tyndale House in '98 (as I recall), but didn't recognize him in this picture ...

Amphoux! His hairline has changed a bit since I last saw him (one wonders what he would say in return about my appearance ...). He give Birdsall, Parker, and me a memorable ride from the Marseilles airport to Lunell, all of us stuffed into a very small Renault, with our luggage in our laps (or in David's case, balanced on his knees), at speeds exceeding 160 km/hr. In all, a breath-taking (in multiple senses of that word) experience.

Notes on Lucian's True Story and on Learning Greek
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In this post I want to do a couple of things. First, I needed a place to
put notes or corrections for the Greek reader version of Lucian’s True Story
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